Future of ACO Growth & Alternative Models

To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®), each issue in 2025 will include a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The April issue features a conversation with Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH, a member of AJMC’s editorial board and the president and CEO of the Institute for Exceptional Care (IEC).

The editors in chief of The American Journal of Managed Care® discuss the key managed care research and news from 2024 and look forward to the journal’s upcoming 30th anniversary.

Mapping care management needs by defining patient populations and then stratifying them according to risk and their needs can help to spur the transformation of a siloed health care system into an integrated system that is able to better provide holistic, value-based care despite the many transitions that continue among hospital, primary, specialty, and community care environments.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although the gap between low and high value has been established in many areas, insurance design has yet to adapt, according to a panel at the 20th annual Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Summit.

This is the fifth and final article in a series on value-based care and the 4 challenges health care organizations must overcome.